Monitoring System Part 2

The modern monitoring system:  In-ear monitoring: 

As already said before in part 1, when performing play its not easy to hear yourself play or singing,  so traditionally musicians and performers uses what so called wedges or floor monitoring to hear what they are doing, but these also bring some negative things with them.  This is why nowadays musicians and singers uses the ear monitoring systems, these are basically just earphones worn by the performer.

















































The benefits of using these are;

• the mix is being sent directly in to your ears,  so the singer is able to hear themselves more clearer with out any interference of any stage noise. 
• You can also adjust the volume according to your preferences. 
• with the use of the in ear monitors, you are likely to remove any feedback noise since the wedges are no longer on the stage, which shows a better professionalism. 
•  The singer has more space to move on the stage 

The New Monitoring System includes;

• Rack mount transmitter 
• Body pack receiver 
• Set of ear phones 

Each receiver can only receive audio from one transmitter, but one transmitter can broadcast to multiple receiver packs letting to few more listeners to listen to the sound.  The Transmitters are placed on a rack on a side of the stage next to the mixer (the mixer is used to mix and send the audio feeds into the transmitter). The Small body pack receivers are usually supposed to be worn on the belt,  and simply all you need to do is plug in your earphones and put them into your ears. these type of earphones are capable of reducing the background noise to 37 DB which results in much clear sound for you, 

PSM systems have three operational modes which are; stereo mode, mono mode or mixed mode.



In Stereo mode a stereo mix is created by the monitor engineer,  the left and right signal are fed into the transmitter which than transmits into your body pack. The mono mode on the the other hand is equally  played into both ears.





In Mix Mode; The performer can control his own volume, the mix mode allows you to hear both inputs in both ears, But you can adjust to which input you prefer to hear.


Due to Technology nowadays one can also customize his own IEM, to his preference; the website have various of colors, shapes, deigns and sizes according to one preferences.

 https://www.westone.com/custom_iem_designer/index.php

These are example of designed headphones; 

This websites gives you the opportunity to buy your preferred earphone;
http://www.headphones.sg/




This blog from Shure gives you more idea why in ear monitoring  systems are better than Wedges.

http://blog.shure.com/10-reasons-why-in-ear-monitors-are-better-than-wedges/